Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin defeated [Black Miasma], and Zhang Yuan claimed his [Sin-Karma Scale]. As they searched the Bureau Chief’s study for a way through the [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace], Zhang Yuan found its structural diagram and noticed a tattered silk manuscript.

• Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin hacked [Black Miasma] apart until his form dissipated.
• Zhang Yuan identified the black weighing weight as the Pre-Heaven Supreme Treasure [Sin-Karma Scale] and realized his purple mansion could not hold it before he refined it.
• Zhang Yuan kept the [Sin-Karma Scale] at his waist to refine it, while Xie Jingxin watched the odd assortment of objects hanging from him.
• Zhang Yuan searched the Bureau Chief’s study and found memorials mentioning the [Prison-Warden Soul-Pitying Palace], but no map.
• Zhang Yuan found a structural diagram of the [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace] and noticed a tattered silk manuscript tucked inside a book.

Zhang Yuan chose to search the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion before risking a visit to Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao's residence. Meanwhile, Black Miasma revived in the Prison-Warden Soul-Pitying Palace, discovered its Demon King had returned, and began summoning prison ghosts to pursue Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin.

• Zhang Yuan found part five of the Brief Account of the Six Heavenly Ancient Gods and noted that only the Ninefold Calamity-Dispelling Palace manuscript remained missing.
• Zhang Yuan studied a layout of the Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace and decided to visit the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion before approaching Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao's residence.
• Zhang Yuan pointed out their destination to Xie Jingxin, who admitted she could not read the map, and he urged them to hurry before anyone arrived.
• Black Miasma revived in his palace and roared in anger after remembering that Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin had killed him.
• The Calamity-Gathering Spirit-Pitying Demon King reprimanded Black Miasma, who apologized and then began calling prison ghosts to hunt down the two intruders.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin looted the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion, taking weapons and spirit tea. Zhang Yuan found a room containing vast stores of precious tea and gathered it all into his purple mansion.

• Zhang Yuan led Xie Jingxin into the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion and let her choose their first room.
• Xie Jingxin picked up a Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasure sword and fused it into [Gazing into the Netherworld], repairing the sword and healing some of her injuries.
• Zhang Yuan collected the remaining swords and swept through several rooms, storing their weapons and artifact treasures in his purple mansion.
• Zhang Yuan changed rows because his purple mansion had limited space and he wanted to leave room for other treasures.
• Zhang Yuan entered a room filled with spirit tea, whose fragrance advanced his cultivation, and gathered all the tea leaves into his purple mansion.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin searched the depths of the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion, where Zhang Yuan found an earthcore treasure lotus tree growing in cinnabar glow five-colored water. After Xie Jingxin slew its guardian flood dragon, Zhang Yuan prepared to collect the water.

• Zhang Yuan refined rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures, raising his spirit root to mid-grade heavenly level, while Xie Jingxin tried and failed to bite a five-aspect colored gemstone.
• Zhang Yuan urged Xie Jingxin deeper into the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion and led her into one of its inner rooms, which contained a small world.
• Zhang Yuan found an earthcore treasure lotus tree growing in a pool of cinnabar glow five-colored water and planned to collect the water with his Three Calamities Gourd.
• A crimson flood dragon attacked Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin, and Xie Jingxin killed it with Gazing into the Netherworld instantly.
• Zhang Yuan stored the flood dragon's body and aimed the Three Calamities Gourd at the pool.

Zhang Yuan stripped the five-colored water and treasures from the Microcosm, then fled the Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace when Black Miasma returned with a vast ghost army. Black Miasma began explaining to Earth Net how the two intruders had attacked him.

• Zhang Yuan collected the five-colored water, Red Crystal Heart, Earthcore Treasure Lotus crown, and part of its trunk while Xie Jingxin questioned whether they were doing wrong.
• Zhang Yuan persuaded Xie Jingxin that they were reclaiming treasures stolen from the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm, and decided to search only three more rooms before leaving.
• Black Miasma appeared outside the palace with a hundred thousand Prison Ghosts and called for the two thieves to come out.
• Zhang Yuan uprooted three nearby rooms into his Purple Mansion, took Xie Jingxin in the Golden Carriage, and fled toward the palace exit.
• Earth Net asked Black Miasma what had happened, and Black Miasma began recounting how the two Vengeful Ghosts had attacked him.

After [Earth Net] exposed Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin’s hidden carriage, [Black Miasma] pursued them with a hundred thousand prison ghosts. Zhang Yuan tried to use the [Sin-Karma Scale] against [Black Miasma], but the treasure turned on him, and [Black Miasma] branded him a great demon before Zhang Yuan retaliated.

• [Earth Net] used the [Earth-Covering Life-Severing Net] to pierce Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin’s concealment and reveal their [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot].
• [Earth Net] returned to the Demon King Palace while [Black Miasma] led a hundred thousand prison ghosts after Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin.
• Zhang Yuan activated the [Sin-Karma Scale] against [Black Miasma], but its judgment weighed Zhang Yuan’s sin-karma more heavily.
• Zhang Yuan cut through the scale’s judgment with Sword Qi, but [Black Miasma] reclaimed the treasure and marked Zhang Yuan as a great demon.
• Zhang Yuan unleashed the [Great Nether World-Swallowing Hand] against [Black Miasma].

Zhang Yuan escaped [Black Miasma] by pushing the [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot] fast enough to enter the fifth heaven's [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace]. After [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] returned to his palace and inspected its treasures, he discovered that the earthcore treasure lotus tree's pool water had been stolen.

• Zhang Yuan failed to seize the souls of [Black Miasma]'s prison ghosts and decided to flee rather than continue a fight that offered him nothing.
• Zhang Yuan accelerated the [Golden Carriage Luan Chariot], and Xie Jingxin's burst of qi-blood helped propel them out of the sixth heaven's [Yin Net Tranquil-Illumination Palace] and into the fifth heaven's [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace].
• [Black Miasma] abandoned his pursuit, suspected the two intruders had been sent by the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace], and returned to report to [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao].
• [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] ordered [Earth Net] to check the Ten-Thousand Saints, Thousand-Treasure Pavilion, then used his divine sense to inspect it himself.
• [Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao] found the earthcore treasure lotus tree's pool dried up and realized its water had been stolen.

Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao learned that the earthcore treasure lotus tree had been cut down, restored it with his power, and encountered a concealed Great Luo True Lord. The stranger defended his secrecy but left his identity and era unresolved.

• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao reflected on cinnabar glow five-colored water and recalled that its creator might no longer exist.
• Earth Net reported that visitors from the Sun-Eroding Demon King Palace had come and that the earthcore treasure lotus tree had been chopped down.
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao restored the tree by dropping vital nectar onto its trunk, regrowing its roots, crown, and branches.
• A blurred figure entered the Sixth Heaven and appeared before Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao, who questioned what era and rank the stranger belonged to.
• The blurred figure said he concealed himself because his fellow Daoists might interfere once the matter came to light.

Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao discussed preparations with a mysterious Great Luo, who reported Emperor Hunlun Zhaopan dead and mentioned trouble in the Roselight Realm. After escaping Black Miasma, Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin landed in another Demon King Palace, the Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace.

• A blurred figure told Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao that Emperor Hunlun Zhaopan was dead and asked about the Demon King of the First Heaven.
• Demon King Mingluo Hunzhao said the First Heaven’s demon king had grown more sinister and that preparations were nearly complete.
• The blurred figure said the Eternal Ancient Imperial Edict Divine Master had arrived in the Roselight Realm and left to deal with trouble before contacting Mingluo Hunzhao again.
• Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin fell into a river, where Xie Jingxin killed an enormous Blue Toad and carried Zhang Yuan to safety.
• Zhang Yuan realized they had reached another of the Six Heavens Demon King Palaces, and Xie Jingxin identified it as the Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin entered [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace], where he gained two turns of cultivation and learned that the entire realm was the Demon King Palace. After Xie Jingxin randomly chose a supposedly safe direction, Zhang Yuan took her south in the Golden Carriage, unaware that a huge creature was following them.

• Zhang Yuan sensed that descending into [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace] had raised his celestial conceptual image to nine turns.
• Xie Jingxin explained that the entire realm was the Demon King Palace and that its lord probably lived in a traveling palace at the center.
• Zhang Yuan asked Xie Jingxin for a safe place to rest, but she admitted she knew nothing about the realm's routes.
• Xie Jingxin randomly pointed south, and Zhang Yuan summoned the Golden Carriage to take them in that direction.
• After Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin departed, a huge creature swallowed the Blue Toad and followed the Golden Carriage.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin explored a riverbed palace in the Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace and discovered the river contained diluted primordial heavy water. After Zhang Yuan collected some of it as a potential weapon, they reached the palace entrance and prepared to explore.

• Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin spotted a palace on a riverbed and drove the Golden Carriage into the water to investigate.
• Chi Guanguan identified the unusually heavy river water as third-origin heavy water diluted from primordial heavy water.
• Zhang Yuan told Xie Jingxin he was speaking to an immortal maiden when she asked who he had been talking to.
• Zhang Yuan dismissed the Golden Carriage at the palace entrance, and he and Xie Jingxin struggled through the pressure of the heavy water.
• Zhang Yuan used the Three Calamities Gourd to collect third-origin heavy water, while Xie Jingxin repelled the current with her qi-blood.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin entered the ruined Calamity God Hall to escape the pressurized river and discovered a silver statue of the Water-Calamity God. Zhang Yuan found a bottle containing primordial heavy water at the statue’s base, then gave Xie Jingxin a spare robe as they remained inside the hall.

• As Xie Jingxin’s gray robe began to fail under the river’s pressure, Zhang Yuan led her through the gates of the Calamity God Hall.
• Zhang Yuan lit the hall’s lamps and found a spotless silver statue of a dragon-featured goddess named the Water-Calamity God.
• After sensing a brief, unseen gaze through the statue, Zhang Yuan turned it to face the wall and found a bottle containing a drop of primordial heavy water.
• Zhang Yuan offered incense to the statue and stored the primordial heavy water after Chi Guanguan explained its known uses.
• Zhang Yuan gave Xie Jingxin a spare gray robe to replace her tattered one.

Zhang Yuan began secluded cultivation in the [Water Calamity Hall], raising his spirit-root aptitude and breaking through to purple mansion perfection. He left with a vastly expanded purple mansion and magic power comparable to that of a tribulation transcendence realm cultivator.

• Zhang Yuan gave Xie Jingxin a new robe, prepared food for her, and asked her to stay inside while he cultivated.
• Xie Jingxin moved Zhang Yuan beside the Silver Dragon Goddess statue so he would face the wall alongside it.
• Zhang Yuan refined the earthcore treasure lotus tree and cinnabar glow five-colored water, raising his spirit root to supreme-grade heavenly aptitude and, with [Beholding Demons], temporarily to low-grade immortal aptitude.
• Zhang Yuan cultivated in the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace] and broke through to the late purple mansion realm, expanding his purple mansion to 66,660 meters.
• Zhang Yuan reached purple mansion perfection, expanding his purple mansion to 6,660,000 meters and raising his magic-power capacity to rival that of a tribulation transcendence realm cultivator.

Zhang Yuan reached Purple Mansion Perfection and broke through to early Spirit Calamity, but a Dragon Maiden appeared in his Sea of Consciousness after an outside force collapsed his first spirit calamity. He called Chi Guanguan for help and identified the intruder as a thief from the East Sea.

• Zhang Yuan used the cloud and water qi in the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace] to pursue a breakthrough in the Qi Sea Uniting Spirit Dao.
• A towering wave formed as Zhang Yuan's first spirit calamity, then suddenly collapsed and advanced him to early Spirit Calamity.
• Zhang Yuan suspected an intruder had interfered with the calamity and tried to summon Chi Guanguan.
• A Dragon Maiden emerged from the water qi and accused Zhang Yuan of taking her things, while he denied it and recognized her threat as belonging to the East Sea Dragon Clan.
• Zhang Yuan called Chi Guanguan, moved behind her, and called the Dragon Maiden a petty thief from the East Sea.

Zhang Yuan and Chi Guanguan confronted Ao Ying, who claimed to be a True Dragon Ancestor and said Zhang Yuan owed her a debt. After she vanished, Zhang Yuan sensed danger outside his Sea of Consciousness.

• Ao Ying introduced herself as a True Dragon Ancestor, while Chi Guanguan rejected her claim to seniority and warned her to leave.
• Ao Ying said Zhang Yuan had taken her primordial heavy water and owed her several tasks, but Zhang Yuan refused.
• Ao Ying declared that Zhang Yuan would have to kill people and retrieve treasures, then dissolved into the clouds of his Sea of Consciousness.
• Chi Guanguan guessed Ao Ying was probably in the Taiyi Realm, and Zhang Yuan began to ask about her cultivation.
• Zhang Yuan sensed intense danger outside his Sea of Consciousness and withdrew his divine sense.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin fought a cursed True Dragon that attacked the Water Calamity Hall. Zhang Yuan created an opening for Xie Jingxin to kill it, and the dragon’s ghostly blue flames consumed its soul after its head was split.

• A fire dragon smashed through the Water Calamity Hall’s gate and attacked Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin.
• Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin escaped to the riverbed, where Zhang Yuan recognized the dragon’s ghostly flames as a water curse likely inflicted by Ao Ying.
• The cursed dragon pursued them, and Zhang Yuan wounded it with the Nether-Illuminating Sword before asking Xie Jingxin to finish it.
• Zhang Yuan battered the dragon with heavy-water weapons and a Golden Carriage, sending it above the river’s surface.
• Xie Jingxin cleaved the dragon’s head in two, and the ghostly blue flames destroyed its primordial spirit and soul.

After Zhang Yuan killed the fire dragon Ao Hen, he decided to avoid further trouble and explore the realm for treasures with Xie Jingxin. The Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King learned of Ao Hen’s death and awakened the realm’s vitality, hoping Zhang Yuan would kill the remaining Dragon Clan traitors and uncover the Dragon Clan Supreme Treasure.

• Zhang Yuan recovered Ao Hen’s Command Token and decided that killing the fire dragon had repaid his debt, while Ao Ying did not contact him again.
• Xie Jingxin chose to follow Zhang Yuan, and they set out to search the realm for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• The Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King sensed Ao Hen’s death and concluded that an outsider had killed him.
• The Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King awakened the realm’s currents to bring forth treasures, knowing that this would also awaken dangerous demons.
• The Heavy Spring Spirit-Commanding Demon King hoped Zhang Yuan would eliminate the Dragon Clan traitors and help him obtain the Dragon Clan Supreme Treasure.

The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess warned Chen Xinqiao that a beautiful Ancient Great Luo had taken Zhang Yuan away, leaving Chen silent and unsettled. Meanwhile, Ye Xiangning sowed suspicion in Cui Zhaowei about Zhang Yuan, and Cui abandoned her sword practice to brood.

• The Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess told Chen Xinqiao about a lost Primordial Era sword and warned her that a woman who wielded [Unimpeded Foot] had taken Zhang Yuan away.
• Chen Xinqiao asked whether the Heavenly Army Night-Cutting Goddess knew Zhang Yuan's whereabouts, then fell silent after hearing that the woman might keep him with her.
• Ye Xiangning watched Cui Zhaowei practice swordsmanship and mischievously asked whether she had feelings for anyone.
• Cui Zhaowei asked why Ye Xiangning warned her against admiring Zhang Yuan, and Ye Xiangning hinted that Cui resembled someone close to him.
• Cui Zhaowei grew distracted by Ye Xiangning's insinuation, stopped practicing, and sat staring into space.

Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin harvested a heavenly oracle glazed flower and its companion melon, then escaped before the Demon King Palace demons arrived. The demons found the slain snake, suspected outsiders had entered, and dispersed after fearing the Sword Saint might be nearby.

• Zhang Yuan and Xie Jingxin watched a heavenly oracle glazed flower bloom beside a water snake and its companion melon.
• Zhang Yuan knocked the snake back into the pool while Xie Jingxin severed its head and claimed the melon; Zhang Yuan picked the flower.
• Zhang Yuan sent snake meat to Xie Jingxin, then they left in the Golden Carriage as demons approached.
• A Bixi asked the gathered demons who had taken the flower and offered to trade for it, but no one answered.
• A cat-eared demon in a Confucian Robe pointed out the sword marks on the snake and suggested outsiders had come; the demons feared the Sword Saint and scattered.

Zhang Yuan refined the heavenly oracle glazed flower, then shared a meal of snake meat and melon with Xie Jingxin and Chi Guanguan. As he considered leaving the [Underworld-Penetrating Soul-Severing Palace] for other Demon King Palaces, something stirred in his mind and he looked toward the hollow tree’s entrance.

• Zhang Yuan refined the heavenly oracle glazed flower, improving his aptitude without reaching an immortal spirit root.
• Zhang Yuan asked Xie Jingxin to divide the snake meat, then cooked two portions over a fire and simmered the rest into soup.
• Chi Guanguan tasted Zhang Yuan’s roast snake meat and boasted that she could cook even better.
• Xie Jingxin noticed someone taking bites from Zhang Yuan’s skewer and concluded a woman was on his shoulder; Zhang Yuan and Chi Guanguan insisted their relationship was innocent.
• Xie Jingxin shared her green melon with Zhang Yuan, who fed some to Chi Guanguan before they finished the meal.
• Zhang Yuan decided he should seek out other Demon King Palaces, then sensed something and turned toward the hollow tree’s entrance.